Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being brave; bravery: as “the braveness of the exploit,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of state or being brave.
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- noun The characteristic of being
brave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
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Examples
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That's the way I see it a good deal now with all that kind of braveness in some of the colored people.
Three Lives Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Gertrude Stein 1910
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Thats the way I see it a good deal now with all that kind of braveness in some of the colored people.
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"I wish to give some kind of braveness to other people, just tell them it's so easy.
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Bergen quotes Muhammad Musa, "a laconic, massively built commander" who led 600 Afghan soldiers to the Tora Bora front lines, on the fanatical braveness of al-Qaeda's fighters.
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Bergen quotes Muhammad Musa, "a laconic, massively built commander" who led 600 Afghan soldiers to the Tora Bora front lines, on the fanatical braveness of al-Qaeda's fighters.
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"I was greatly moved by the braveness of the survivors who are encouraging themselves in trying to live on through this enormous disaster," the emperor said.
Emperor Akihito Urges His Stricken Nation to Continue On Mariko Sanchanta 2011
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We have matured certainly as we can win tonight when we are less creative but with intelligence, braveness and calm.
Arsenal's Theo Walcott misses cup final, Cesc Fábregas a major doubt 2011
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These are brilliant programmes, some telling stories from much closer to home? one includes an American army deserter? and all full of stubborn courage, braveness, luck and some jaw-dropping cruelty.
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Mr. Seda, whose face invites us in even as it gives nothing away, deserves most of the credit for clarifying a simple mystery at the heart of braveness; how, stripped to his elemental self, a hero is a kind of innocent.
Blood on Their Boots Nancy deWolf Smith 2010
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Mr. Seda, whose face invites us in even as it gives nothing away, deserves most of the credit for clarifying a simple mystery at the heart of braveness; how, stripped to his elemental self, a hero is a kind of innocent.
Blood on Their Boots Nancy deWolf Smith 2010
yarb commented on the word braveness
...the dignified resilience
that humans, or some, are capable of still,
evinced in the sad braveness of the bereaved
whose daughter, being blind, observed no warning.
- Peter Reading, Hints, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008